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I've heard of yellow and black rat snakes eating rabbits, but never of a corn doing so. Last night I received this e-mail from one of my customers:

"We had been feeding her one or two rat pups every five days or so. In the last 4 or 5 months we had started feeding her still born rabbits. They are dwarf rabits and are slightly larger then rat pups. My wife is involved in rabbit breeding and we have a good supply of them. The snake really seems to like them."

I thought it was an interesting feeding option!

Tim

Third Eye

I've done the same thing. We end up with lots of small bunnies that can't make it (especially in thewinter or with new moms). I hateto waste them, so I've given a few to corns. I've always worried they'd refuse rodents afterwards, though, so I only did it a little bit. Now, I give all of those to growing female BCCs. They all get rabbits as soon as they are big enough, anyway! It's almost like "free" food since we only use the ones that are stillborn, have some other problem, or freeze in the night.
KJ

>>I've heard of yellow and black rat snakes eating rabbits, but never of a corn doing so. Last night I received this e-mail from one of my customers:
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>>"We had been feeding her one or two rat pups every five days or so. In the last 4 or 5 months we had started feeding her still born rabbits. They are dwarf rabits and are slightly larger then rat pups. My wife is involved in rabbit breeding and we have a good supply of them. The snake really seems to like them."
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>>I thought it was an interesting feeding option!
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>>Tim
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>>Third Eye

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KJUN Snakehaven

Yeah, adult corns generally can easily take down a newborn bunny. Larger adult corns can take down bunnies that are a few days old. I have an emory rat that is able to take down weaned/hopper rats without a problem and those are about the equiv to the small bunny sizes.
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PHWyvern

I've gotten rabbit pinkies from my old rodent supplier... we'd receive them frozen in little ziplocs. My bigger corns loved them!

That must be one of those easter bunnies hatching out of an egg?

>>That must be one of those easter bunnies hatching out of an egg?

Yeah. My wife has a sick sense of humor. She took the image.
KJ
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KJUN Snakehaven

Just kidding. Not corns, but here a couple of shots of rat snakes with a fetish for assorted vermin.

Did you feed that second one a wild squirrel?
Or was it captive bred?
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Life is Killing Me"

>>Did you feed that second one a wild squirrel?
>>Or was it captive bred?

It was 'captive bred' under the eave of my porch. When the mother attempted (unsuccessfully) to break dance beneath a moving automobile tire, the babies jumped ship from the nest a few days later and ended up in my flower bed. I proceeded to "humanely dispatch" the nasty vermin and placed them in a nice comfy Ziploc. There they awaited their date with my vermin recycling crew.

To keep things on topic, pictured is a corn I found last week. It appeared to have recently dined on a small bird.

dg

np

LOL

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My blackrat has been known to dine on what the cat drags in.

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"Upon Thy Belly Thou Shalt Go"

I had a lizard die after eating a wild caught frog. I will no longer feed my animals wild caught prey.
It worries me too much.
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Life is Killing Me"

some frogs can be toxic.......toads too.........

.........all wild can carry worms.......even captive stuff carries worms alot...(reptiles and rodents.)....

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yeah. This was a normal frog, no different than the others I had fed previously. This one apparently had something that killed the lizard, though
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****Misty****

www.sneakyserpents.com

"Life is Killing Me"

cats suck...unless they are kept indoors.....

.....I know.....my opinion.......

.....and also why cats are fair game while hunting and trapping I believe......

.....also why cats soaked in quick cure and then smoked taste like ham.........

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........wonder if killing rabbits out of season (or other things)......is legal if it's a cat.?.....or is it owner's responsability to keep cats from killing ???........
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did that alot back in the early '80's........why waste captive food.........winter born babies in gang cages get set upon and peed on then freeze to death alot.......sucks......but they had more babies then in winter than summer......odd.......
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Probably a built in "species survival" thing. They plan on casualties due to cold weather, so they have more babies.
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"What is man without the beasts?
If all the beasts were gone,
men would die from great loneliness of spirit.
For what happens to the beasts,
soon happens to men.
All things are connected."

-Chief Seattle (Duwamish Tribe)